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• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  I hadn't been sick in years. I mean sure, I've had the occasional headache, and yes, there have been days where I just couldn't bring myself to ... ago, I was out sick with the flu. I frankly don't know how I had lasted

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  , also at 3 am. I don’t know if PUF stopped screaming at 3 am or if I just ... understand that they don’t actually have to do anything just because I told ... I don’t consider it enough of a sit. 4. snuggling in weird positions

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  . you didn’t grow the lettuce or the wheat or the tomatoes, or crush the wheat into flour or cut the lettuce or tomatoes. you didn’t bring all the ingredients to the restaurant, and you didn’t cook any of them yourself. you

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Cleaning A psychoanalysis of the recently deleted folder in my notes app

  

  because I've been telling myself that I don't need to blog at any given moment, but mostly because I haven't had any decent ideas. At first, I ... how my luggage didn't arrive to Boston for four days. Then, I wrote

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  actual conversations i definitely had last night happy new year i guess

  

  myself from saying that because i'm normal, haha A: in a sense aren't we all trying to act normal all the time B: well B: don't say that, that ... "we're all trying to act normal" isn't weird A: we're driving in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  , invisible form emerging when it doesn't exist, a shape that clearly exists isn't ... random set of clues, but something connects them together. i don't think ... this image: if you haven't seen this before, it looks like black and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  goodbye” kind of way. Rather, it’s hard in the sense that I don’t know what ... , it felt like it wasn’t the right thing to say. Some drafts tried to ... . But trying to rush that process thirty-thousand feet in the air just isn’t

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  i’m studying abroad this semester hello europe

  

  : Introductory math classes at MIT don't always work for me. I had a wonderful experience in 18.100A, Real Analysis, but didn't enjoy 18.06, Linear Algebra ... ask us to all return to the original classroom. It wasn't a strong start

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 7, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  lessons on burnout 2020 made me realize things

  

  , and classes don’t matter all that much anymore because I’m going to MIT ... experiences"]older friends[/annotation] were asking me, why don’t you take a gap ... policy for freshman fall, where we either pass a class or it doesn’t go on

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 12, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  that they would be shocked if i didn't get accepted. there's something ... cycle. i wasn't ready to write dozens of essays and go through interviews ... deferred again, i wouldn't react in the same way? many of my friends reached

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  , well, I'd survived junior year of high school, hadn't I? And it wasn't ... academics, and midterms haven't even hit me yet...things are rough. I'm taking ... "]HASS[/annotation] ones, so my workload isn't as bad as it could be, but I'm struggling to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving Self-Quarantine 101 tldr; memes (haha jk...unless)

  

  particularly tedious. we don't have classes for the next week and a half, so we have a lot of time that we don't know what to do with. in fact, in the ... 1000 extracurriculars to students who haven't been this not busy since

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora

  

  my 18.03 pset. But I didn’t actually finish. I was going to do it in ... interface has a bunch of different methods and if you create a class… I DON’T ... which didn’t seem super important. So then I decided not to go because it

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 4, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  my dreams, and senior-year-me couldn’t be happier to be there. I was ... too many windows (which I won’t name, but you can probably guess). It ... campus and visit the last one on her list: Senior House. I hadn’t been to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  -loving entity of your choice). How big is this bowl of milk exactly? Well, I don’t ... struggling to take it all in. Don’t get me wrong. I love it here already. Sure ... when I say “overwhelmed”, I don’t mean stressed out or crushed. I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  Fun fact about me, on days when I don’t have much to do, especially ... times over winter break, but I wasn’t particularly getting anywhere. In fact, I wasn’t particularly interested in doing a whole lot of anything

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  representatives (because who wouldn't want to work for a cool company like i ... ! Figuring I didn't anything to lose, I decided to go ahead and submit an answer online! I didn't really think much about it afterwards, especially

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  't that terrifying? If you can guess where you're most likely ... graduate institution. Of course, I didn't have a graduate institution yet; I wasn't even done applying! I knew that I was applying to MIT

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  More than 9000 reasons not to groan at my poor usage of outdated memes. ALSO, CPW!

  

  admitted who don't mind the expense of traveling to boston for the weekend in ... really cool t-shirts*. I'd like to go, but if there's somebody who is not leaning towards MIT, I don't want to take their spot" * I do not think this

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Passions (No, not that kind)

  

  revolutionary bit -- what those people don't know is that the college essay should ... don't do it?) put your best foot forward and talk about you, the bits of ... 's something about you that you wouldn't enjoy sharing with other people, then

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 1, 2010